Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon access scanning

david
2008-08-15T05:34:00Z

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:

> again, libmalware.so is not referring to any specific body of code, it's
> referring to the concept that the handling of open/mmap/read/etc and scanning
> is done via a userspace library rather then by the kernel. if everyone can
> agree on that concept then hashing out the details of _which_ library it gets
> put in is a smaller detail.

one reason to layer scanners is that you could have one that just checks
to see if the file was deployed from a OS package, if it was (and still
has the same hash as the package manager thinks it should have) it sets a
flag that other scanners could look for (if they see it they can skip
scanning the file)

David Lang